We are slowly running out of dual releases, I've 5 books to transcribe up for you and after that comes the hard part of making a proper book out of this. The Swamp Monster is a mix of environmental and old Civil war mystery.
The boys are tasked with looking into death threats directed to Professor Martin Pierce, who lives in the Big Thicket area of Texas. Reports of a monster gator terrorizing the community and a local corporation run by Norman Zeigler is threatening to buy up most of the stock land.
They arrive just in time to take part in a Civil War re-enactment where they are on the union side vs the draft dodging Jayhawkers.
It's not a bad story and gives a good insight into the natural history of the region, where from a non American's perspective it shows a side to Texas that isn't a semi arid dustbowl.
Anyway there are no changes between the two stories so you can read both the UK and US versions here and here.
A final coincidence on this, as I was watching Youtube while putting the final touches to this, the video (totally unrelated to the Hardys) mentioned the words Swamp Monster. Needless to say I was shocked.
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